Alamance County, North Carolina

• White (non-Hispanic) 102,741 58.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 27,012 15.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 34,608 19.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,208 1.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 7,699 4.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 310 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 77 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,238 0.7%

• Under 18 39,209 22.2%
• 18–24 17,970 10.2%
• 25–44 44,191 25.0%
• 45–64 45,170 25.5%
• 65 and over 30,353 17.2%

Median household income

$66,652

90% interval $63,481–$69,823

−$7,403 vs NC · 37th of 100

Below poverty line

13.8%

90% interval 11.8%–15.8%

+1.2 pp vs NC · 56th of 100

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

+0.01 pp vs. state

County GDP

$9.0B

1.07% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,768

Establishments

4,230

• Education & health services 17,373 26.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 16,406 24.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,170 12.3%
• Manufacturing 7,650 11.5%
• Professional & business services 6,086 9.1%
• Public administration 3,005 4.5%
• Financial activities 2,284 3.4%
• Other services 1,849 2.8%

The sectors listed cover 94.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

65.0%

−1.6 pp vs NC · 80th of 100

Median gross rent

$1,064

−$164 vs NC · 35th of 100

Owner-occupied

45,543

Renter-occupied

24,519

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $89,121/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,593/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 47,937 53.5%
• Democratic 40,624 45.4%
• Other / third-party 1,007 1.1%

• Spanish 21,290 12.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 322 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 314 0.2%
• Tagalog 268 0.2%
• Arabic 266 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 222 0.1%
• Vietnamese 166 0.1%
• Korean 153 0.1%
• Chinese 56 0.0%

Households

70,062

Family households

45,428

64.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

12,519

27.6% of families

Single-mother families

5,233

11.5% of families

Veterans

9,482

6.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 36,394 21.2%
• Mainline Protestant 18,041 10.5%
• Catholic 11,663 6.8%
• Black Protestant 5,673 3.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,934 2.3%
• Orthodox 130 0.1%

Health insured

89.8%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

10.2%

±0.7 pp

45th of 100

With a disability

12.3%

±0.6 pp

88th of 100

Bachelor's or higher

28.7%

±1.2 pp

−7.0 pp vs NC · 29th of 100

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

11.8%

90% interval 10.8%–12.8% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

17th Judicial District Superior Court

Judges

2 (Superior Court judges per primary district (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 nccourts.gov; counts cross-checked against N.C.G.S. § 7A-41.1. Where an urban county (Wake, Mecklenburg, Guilford, Forsyth) is statutorily split into multiple Superior Court districts, all sub-district seats are aggregated under the primary district number used in counties.json. ~109 Superior Court judgeships statewide.)

Court seats

Graham

Traffic fatalities

25

18.16 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

25